Isla Scott

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Isla’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Never Pack an Ice-Axe: Tales From a Travel Writer's Life

Never Pack an Ice-Axe: Tales From a Travel Writer's Life by Jules Brown

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I was even validated by no less a travel writer than Bill Bryson who came here in search of the Northern Lights and wrote of Hammerfest as “an agreeable enough town in a thank-you-God-for-not-making-me-live-here sort of way.” Bill comes ...more

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Isla’s Quotes

“At the end of the day, does it matter your race, religion, or gender? Aren’t we all just looking to be the best version of ourselves?”
― Greer Hendricks, The Sublet

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“Like lavender, I bloom in the most unlikely of places. In a world of chaos, let lavender be your oasis.”
― Greer Hendricks, The Sublet

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“At the end of the day, does it matter your race, religion, or gender? Aren’t we all just looking to be the best version of ourselves?” I”
― Greer Hendricks, The Sublet

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“Want,’ she told her, in a measured tone, ‘is an interesting word. It means lack. Sometimes if we fill that lack with something else the original want disappears entirely.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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“if a frog is suddenly put into steaming hot water, it will jump out, but if the frog is set in tepid water that is brought to a boil slowly, the frog will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death.”
― Greer Hendricks, The Sublet

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